: The quick and the dead: Focus on India’s stuttering middle-order batsmen as they fail again #IndiaNEWS At close on day two of the ICC World Test Championship final, India were 146/3 after 64.4 overs.

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The quick and the dead: Focus on India’s stuttering middle-order batsmen as they fail again #IndiaNEWS
At close on day two of the ICC World Test Championship final, India were 146/3 after 64.4 overs. The new ball had been dealt with, the worst of the conditions had been dealt with, captain Virat Kohli was on 44 and his deputy Ajinkya Rahane on 29. To be fair, given the conditions, India had done very well.But come day 3, the team inexplicably collapsed to 217 all out. In the words of former India batting coach Sanjay Bangar, ‘they should be kicking themselves’.Bangar’s analysis, which came on Star Sports after the match ended, was spot on. By batting well on day two, India got over the loss of the toss but then shot themselves in the foot by refusing to apply themselves in the middle. Intent, as Kohli often says, is not just about playing shots. But it is a word that is frequently misunderstood by his team.The tail simply didn’t wag for India – in the first innings, Kohli’s team went from 182/6 to 217 all out and in the second innings, 142/6 to 170 all out. In essence, once NZ got through the top order, the lower order did nothing. On earlier tours of England, we have seen that the lower order...Read more

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